Monday, September 24, 2012

“The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.” ~ Gloria Steinem

“Lock up your libraries if you like, but there is no gate, no lock, no
bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.” ~ Virginia Woolf, "A
Room Of One's Own"

“The most
important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in
your reality for a role. You trade in your sense for an act. You give up
your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask. There can't be
any large-scale revolution until there's a personal revolution, on an
individual level. It's got to happen inside first.”...“Expose yourself
to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and when the fear
of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.” ~ Jim Morrison

"I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being, with an
independent will; which I now exert to leave you.” ~ Charlotte Brontë,
"Jane Eyre"

“Freedom lies in being bold.” ~ Robert Frost

“Now that she had nothing to lose, she was free.” ~ Paulo Coelho, "Eleven Minutes"

“I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable,
I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free
because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.”
~ Robert A. Heinlein

“Some birds are not meant to be caged,
that's all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and
wild. So you let them go, or when you open the cage to feed them they
somehow fly out past you. And the part of you that knows it was wrong to
imprison them in the first place rejoices, but still, the place where
you live is that much more drab and empty for their departure.” ~ Stephen King, "Shawshank Redemption: A Story from Different Seasons"

“Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or
one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?” ~ Kurt
Vonnegut

“For to be free is not merely to cast off one's
chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of
others.” ~ Nelson Mandela

“The things you own end up owning
you. It's only after you lose everything that you're free to do
anything.” ~ Chuck Palahniuk, "Fight Club"

“Yes, my consuming
desire is to mingle with road crews, sailors and soldiers, barroom
regulars—to be a part of a scene, anonymous, listening, recording—all
this is spoiled by the fact that I am a girl, a female always supposedly
in danger of assault and battery. My consuming interest in men and
their lives is often misconstrued as a desire to seduce them, or as an
invitation to intimacy. Yes, God, I want to talk to everybody as deeply
as I can. I want to be able to sleep in an open field, to travel west,
to walk freely at night...” ~ Sylvia Plath

“Happy. Just in my
swim shorts, barefooted, wild-haired, in the red fire dark, singing,
swigging wine, spitting, jumping, running—that's the way to live. All
alone and free in the soft sands of the beach by the sigh of the sea out
there, with the Ma-Wink fallopian virgin warm stars reflecting on the
outer channel fluid belly waters..” ~ Jack Kerouac, "The Dharma Bums"

“I tell my students, 'When you get these jobs that you have been so
brilliantly trained for, just remember that your real job is that if you
are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then
your job is to empower somebody else. This is not just a grab-bag candy
game.” ~ Toni Morrison

“I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more
unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.”...“I'll walk where my
own nature would be leading. It vexes me to choose another guide.” ~
Charlotte Bronte', "Jane Eyre"

“It was one thing to make a mistake; it was another thing to keep making it. I knew what happened when you let yourself get close to someone, when you started to believe they loved you; you'd be disappointed.

Depend on someone, and you might as well admit you're
going to be crushed, because when you really needed them, they wouldn't
be there. Either that, or you'd confide in them and you added to their
problems. All you ever really had was yourself.” ~ Jodi Picoult, "Handle
With Care "

“Not I, nor anyone else can travel that road for you. You must travel it by yourself. It is not far. It is within reach. Perhaps you have been on it since you were born, and did not know. Perhaps it is everywhere - on water and land.” ~ Walt Whitman, "Leaves of Grass"

“Cherish your solitude. Take trains by yourself to places you have
never been. Sleep out alone under the stars. Learn how to drive a stick
shift. Go so far away that you stop being afraid of not coming back. Say
no when you don’t want to do something. Say yes if your instincts are
strong, even if everyone around you disagrees. Decide whether you want
to be liked or admired. Decide if fitting in is more important than
finding out what you’re doing here. Believe in kissing.” ~ Eve Ensler

“Don't compromise yourself. You're all you've got.” ~ Janis Joplin

“I have not lived as a woman. I have lived as a man. I've just done
what I damn well wanted to, and I've made enough money to support
myself, and ain't afraid of being alone.” ~ Katharine Hepburn

“You can't trust other people. If it's important, you have to do it yourself.” ~ Neil Gaiman, "The Graveyard Book"

“The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.” ~ Michel de Montaigne

“I don't need anyone to hold me, I can hold my own.” ~ Ani DiFranco

“If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.” ~Napoleon Bonaparte

“I think the girl who is able to earn her own living and pay her own
way should be as happy as anybody on earth. The sense of independence
and security is very sweet.” ~ Susan B. Anthony

“Sure, it
sucked to be lost, but I'd long ago realized I preferred it to depending
on anyone else to get me where I needed to go. That was the thing about
being alone, in theory or in principle. Whatever happened- good, bad,
or anywhere in between- it was always, if nothing else, all your own.” ~
Sarah Dessen, Lock and Key

“Associate with noblest people
you can find; read the best books; live with the mighty. But learn to be
happy alone. Rely upon your own energies, and so not wait for, or
depend on other people.” ~ Thomas Davidson

“Remember, this is important: Never trust that you will be saved by anyone.” ~ Amanda Boyden, "Pretty Little Dirty"

“In yourself right now is all the place you've got.” ~ Flannery O'Connor, "Wise Blood "

“Maybe your country is only a place you make up in your own mind.
Something you dream about and sing about. Maybe it's not a place on the
map at all, but just a story full of people you meet and places you
visit, full of books and films you've been to. I'm not afraid of being
homesick and having no language to live in. I don't have to be like
anyone else. I'm walking on the wall and nobody can stop me.” ~ Hugo
Hamilton, "The Speckled People: A Memoir of a Half-Irish Childhood "

"Take my advice: Don't think you will find it in another person. You
won't. It's not there. You must find it in yourself.”" ~ Iain Pears,
"The Dream of Scipio"

“Every path but your own is the path of fate. Keep on your own track, then.” ~ Henry David Thoreau, "Walden"

“Love unconditionally, but rely only on yourself.” ~ Marty Rubin

“Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every
moment with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation; but of
the adopted talent of another you have only an extemporaneous half
possession. That which each can do best, none but his Maker can teach
him.”...“Truly speaking, it is not instruction, but provocation, that I
can receive from another soul. What he announces, I must find true in
me, or reject; and on his word, or as his second, be he who he may, I
can accept nothing.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Here must thou be, O man, Strength to thyself — no helper hast thou here — Here keepest thou thy individual state: No other can divide with thee this work, No secondary hand can intervene To fashion this ability. 'Tis thine, The prime and vital principle is thine In the recesses of thy nature, far From any reach of outward fellowship, Else 'tis not thine at all.” ~ William Wordsworth

"Some tough battles have to be fought alone. Some paths have to be
crossed alone. So never be emotionally attached to anyone. You never
know when you will have to walk alone." ~ Halona Leonora

My religion is based on truth and non-violence. Truth is my God.
Non-violence is the means of realising Him"..."Non-violence is not a
garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in the heart, and it
must be an inseparable part of our being."..."Non-violence is the
greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier than the
mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man."
~ Mahatma Gandhi

I choose to exercise "MY GOD GIVEN RIGHT" to serve the ways of Peace, Love and Compassion...

GREAT MORNING, BELOVED ONES! May You Become One with the Beauty that Surrounds You in Every Perfect Moment, This Glorious Day!

"Each morning is the open door to a new world - new vistas, new aims,
new plans, new things... and whether one is twenty, forty, sixty or
eighty; whether one has succeeded, failed or just muddled along - life
begins each morning." ~ L. M. Hodges

"I will greet this day with love in my
heart.And how will I do this?Henceforth will I look on all things with
love and be born again.I will love the sun for it warms my bones;yet I
will love the rain for it cleanses my spirit.I will love the light for it
shows me the way;yet I will love the darkness for it shows me the
stars.I will welcome happiness as it enlarges my heart;yet I will endure
sadness for it opens my soul.I will acknowledge rewards for they are my
due;yet I will welcome obstacles for they are my challenge."- Og
Mandino